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Mediastinal tuberculous lymphadenitis with intractable fistula to the neck
1General Thoracic Surgery, Tottori University Hospital, Yonago, Japan. miwa@med.tottori-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
A 62-year-old female consulted our hospital due to an ulceration on the skin of her neck and a mediastinal tumor. Chest CT scan and MRI revealed a mediastinal tumor-like lesion with direct progression to the neck skin lesion. En bloc resection of the tumor including the neck skin ulcer was performed under a median sternotomy. Mediastinal tuberculous lymphadenitis was diagnosed histologically. This is a case of a very rare type of mediastinal tuberculous lymphadenitis that progressed to the neck with an intractable fistula.
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